Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Bikram and Betaal (in IT Land)

Bikram turned his back again on the banyan tree, this time laden with Betaal with the white billowed hair-mass (mess?) of his. After exactly what seemed like 4 minutes, Betaal had it and started working his way around the fact that he was under arrest."Bikram, as usual, I do not have to tell you that if you open your mouth to utter even one word, I shall flee your back and will return to my place on the tree".
"Hmph" sighed Bikram, of course without opening his mouth.
A while later, Betaal shot: "Do you use MeScrewloft Weird to work with your documents?". Bikram could see where it was headed to. He could not help but answer that. After all, he made a living out of it!
Thinking 'Stupid fellow. I can answer yes-no questions without opening my mouth. What a condition and what traps! Huh!', Bikram nodded, for a 'yes'.
"Do your documents sometimes contain figures?" - Betaal.
'I am almost half way up there, just a security check and I am done. Keep 'em the y/n questions coming, buddy' thought Bikram and nodded for a 'yes' again.
"Then tell me, Bikram, the great conqueror of the Cubicles and the Cabins, the brute force formatter of MS Weird documents, the collector of soft copies, why do sometimes the captions of some figures or tables inserted in the documents appear in separate text boxes? Why aren't they adjacent to the object being captioned, as just text specially formatted?"
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"If you do not answer me, despite knowing the answer to this question, mind Mr Bikram, you shall forget all passwords/ PINs of yours, including the one to the mail account of yours you have mailed all other passwords to."
Bikram could sense the danger looming large. He had little choice. A heaved breath.
"It is because the objects under question are not 'in line with text'. This is the text wrapping option that appears in the 'format' tab of the object. Once in line with text, the captioning becomes easy and streamlined, and the captions start appearing as text specially formatted. Alternatively, one can cut the caption text from within the referred text box and paste it close to the object under question, if inevitable, and then delete the thus empty text box."

"Yoo hoo! You who! Here I go, Bikram, see you again, soon! Ta-ta! T-a-t-a!"
And Betaal fled, to the original place of his, hanging upside down from the banyan tree...

1 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

Too good Sir!! Experience speaks for itself.. I know Bikram da, the King of Formatting, in BD.. Trying to guess who can fit into the Betaal's role..

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